Documentary and Propaganda Films

The Last Bomb, Part One.
1945 U.S. Army Air Forces propaganda film-filmed in color and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary – about B-29 bases in the Marianas Islands and air raids on Tokyo, Japan. Source: The National Archives, College Park, Maryland.

The Last Bomb, Part Two.
1945 U.S. Army Air Forces propaganda film- filmed in color and nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary – about B-29 bases in the Marianas Islands and air raids on Tokyo, Japan. Source: The National Archives, College Park, Maryland.

The Air Force Story – Chapter 24, Air War Against Japan, October 1944- August 1945. Propaganda film produced by the United States Air Forces, 1949. Source: United States National Archives via Public.Resource.Org.

Our Enemy – The Japanese. 1943 U.S. Government-produced film, narrated by Joseph Grew, made as a training film for the U.S. Navy. Source: Prelinger Collection via www.archive.org

_________________________________________________________________________________________A Tale of Two Cities. 1946 U.S. War Department film, designated as “a pictorial report for the armed forces only,” about the atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Source: Prelinger Collection via www.archive.org.